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WIMPs versus MACHOS: What’s the Matter?
Historically, astronomers have harvested light
Dark Matter
How do we know?
Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies
Revised notion of a galaxy
With our Dark Matter glasses on:
A cosmological Rosetta stone?
The Mass Budget of the Universe
What is the Galactic Dark Matter?
Searching for Particle Physics Dark Matter
Searching for WIMPs
Is the mass of the neutrino exactly zero?
Scanning for Axions
Searching for MACHOs How do you look for something that can’t be seen?
Gravitational Lensing
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The Signature of Gravitational Microlensing
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Gravitational Microlensing by MACHOs
The Large Magellanic Cloud
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The MACHO Project
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MACHO Project - lines of sight
The Needle in the Haystack
The MACHO Project - Data Analysis
Many stars are variable!
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Microlensing has been detected
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Gravitational Microlensing is Very Useful
Looking for Planets with Microlensing
As for the search for MACHOs...
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A detection of Dark Matter?
The Puzzle
So, what is the matter?
We live in a special time in human history
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